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It was just this August that we heard about a super-slippery 3D-printed toilet bowl, which bacteria slide right off of. Well, if you want that same sort of functionality in your existing toilet, a special coating may do the trick.Led by Prof. Mustafa Serdar Onses, a team of scientists at Erciyes University in Turkey set out to develop a new method of grafting hydrophobic (water-repelling) polymers onto surfaces such as porcelain. Although there already are methods of doing so, they're labor-intensive and involve the use…

An alleged victim of eminent American actor Kevin Spacey has made disturbing claims, stating that young men were warned about him and that it was "well known he was up to no good," according to court proceedings at Southwark Crown Court. Actor Kevin Spacey leaves Southwark Crown Court, London, where he is charged with three counts of indecent assault, seven counts of sexual assault, one count of causing a person to engage in sexual activity without consent and one count of causing a person to engage in…

As a director, Ben Affleck certainly knows how to craft an involving piece of storytelling. This factually based account of the behind-the-scenes wrangling that led to Nike – in 1984 still the uncool underdogs of the sports shoe industry – signing basketball player Michael Jordan is undeniably engaging. So much so that you almost forget you’re watching two hours of doughy, middle-aged men (in the Nike executive lead role, Matt Damon looks as though he was moulded out of pastry) sweating in boardrooms and slapping each…

Fortnite is keeping the Lantern Fest Event rolling with some new quests, including one that asks you to complete three parkour challenges on Lantern Fest Tour Island. These will test your platforming capabilities and reflexes quite a bit, but we'll tell you where to find them, including the Slippery Slide, and give you a general idea of what you're up against fo your 40,000 XP.All parkour challenge locations and how to beat themYou can find the Parkour Paradise tent housing the three parkour challenges on…

Good morning, and welcome to the Essential California newsletter. It’s Wednesday, March 8.The robot age is upon us. They’re already building our cars, flipping our burgers, cleaning our floors, patrolling our parking lots and delivering our junk food. And for law enforcement agencies in California and beyond, robots are joining the force. Robots have made for some funny news stories and are ripe for satire, but police watchdogs and community advocates are raising concerns about how the tech could be abused by…

Like much of the internet, PubPeer is the sort of place where you might want to be anonymous. There, under randomly assigned taxonomic names like Actinopolyspora biskrensis (a bacterium) and Hoya camphorifolia (a flowering plant), “sleuths” meticulously document mistakes in the scientific literature. Though they write about all sorts of errors, from bungled statistics to nonsensical methodology, their collective expertise is in manipulated images: clouds of protein that show suspiciously crisp edges, or identical…

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“I ask this one thing:/let me go mad in my own way,” opens the epigraph – taken from Sophocles’s Antigone – of Julia May Jonas’s debut novel. It unfolds in the wake of seven allegations of sexual misconduct against a female academic’s husband, John (another professor at the same college), triggering, in turn, a slew of student signatures calling for his removal. The supposed “madness” of the novel lies not only in the whipped-up condemnation of John, but in the narrator’s slippery descent into her own murky…